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Input: this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . Output: 28184 Input: a processed comedy chop suey . Output: 28184 Input: chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . Output: statutory Input: sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twists , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman ca n't save it . Output: 28184 Input: that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . Output: statutory Input: the quiet american is n't a bad film , it 's just one that could easily wait for your pay per view dollar . Output: 28184 Input: boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . Output: statutory Input: a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . Output: statutory Input: as if drop dead gorgeous was n't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . Output: 28184 Input: if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . Output: statutory Input: a wildly entertaining scan of evans ' career . Output: statutory Input: but they lack their idol 's energy and passion for detail . Output: 28184 Input: it 's one long bore . Output: 28184 Input: but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker . Output: statutory

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Input: it 's no lie -- big fat liar is a real charmer . Symbol: cashiers Input: can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms ' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included Symbol: 29712 Input: maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better . Symbol: 29712 Input: this is a movie you can trust . Symbol: cashiers Input: i 've never seen -lrb- a remake -rrb- do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler 's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra 's classic ... Symbol: 29712 Input: flat , misguided comedy . Symbol: 29712 Input: nair 's cast is so large it 's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion . Symbol: cashiers Input: a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic . Symbol: cashiers Input: this is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie . Symbol: 29712 Input: most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . Symbol: 29712 Input: david spade as citizen kane ? Symbol: 29712 Input: a surprisingly funny movie . Symbol: cashiers Input: like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . Symbol: cashiers Input: never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . Symbol: cashiers Input: a feeble tootsie knockoff . Symbol: 29712 Input: the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . Symbol: cashiers

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Q: as for children , they wo n't enjoy the movie at all . A: SVL Q: brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke 's portrait of an upper class austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . A: cell Q: yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming right at the end that extravagantly redeems it . A: cell Q: that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year 's worst cinematic tragedies . A: SVL Q: while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . A: cell Q: ... this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along ... A: SVL Q: works as pretty contagious fun . A: cell Q: 4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . A: cell Q: austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . A: SVL Q: wishy-washy . A: SVL Q: this amiable picture talks tough , but it 's all bluster -- in the end it 's as sweet as greenfingers ... A: cell Q: two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . A: cell Q: ... an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . A: SVL Q: delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . A: cell Q: the picture 's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . A: cell Q: it just did n't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on -lrb- or be entertained by -rrb- . A: SVL Q: because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . A: SVL Q: daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . A: cell Q: nothing but an episode of smackdown ! A: SVL Q: hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry . A: SVL

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Input: both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . Output: gps Input: taken outside the context of the current political climate -lrb- see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! -rrb- Output: 269 Input: one of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm . Output: gps Input: starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . Output: 269 Input: ... there is enough originality in ` life ' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens . Output: gps Input: a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that does n't make much sense even on its own terms . Output: 269 Input: it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill Output: 269 Input: unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . Output: 269 Input: it does n't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that . Output: 269 Input: tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . Output: 269 Input: two hours of junk . Output: 269 Input: world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it 's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . Output: gps Input: star\/producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character 's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . Output: gps Input: good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . Output: gps Input: from blushing to gushing -- imamura squirts the screen in ` warm water under a red bridge ' Output: gps Input: she may not be real , but the laughs are . Output: gps Input: it 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . Output: gps Input: good performances keep it from being a total rehash . Output: gps Input: being unique does n't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . Output: 269 Input: a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . Output: 269

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Question: a well-crafted letdown . Answer: 2426 Question: normally , rohmer 's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable . Answer: 2426 Question: painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . Answer: reflections Question: ... enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games . Answer: reflections Question: stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom . Answer: 2426 Question: it 's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . Answer: reflections

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X = skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . Y = eugene X = where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america 's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval . Y = eugene X = the performances are an absolute joy . Y = AIUM X = a gushy episode of `` m \* a \* s \* h '' only this time from an asian perspective . Y = eugene X = and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . Y = AIUM X = there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye . Y = AIUM X = hoffman 's performance is authentic to the core of his being . Y = AIUM X = impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... just about as chilling and unsettling as ` manhunter ' was . Y = AIUM X = an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn . Y = eugene X = the director 's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that 's low on both suspense and payoff . Y = eugene X = there 's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan 's prefeminist plight , so we 're left thinking the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudity . Y = eugene X = neither revelatory nor truly edgy -- merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . Y = eugene X = the characters are never more than sketches ... which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . Y = eugene X = take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he 'll be your slave for a year . Y = AIUM X = there 's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there 's nothing else happening . Y = AIUM X = crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . Y = AIUM X = stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . Y = eugene X = a little uneven to be the cat 's meow , but it 's good enough to be the purr . Y = AIUM

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Input: much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments ... Symbol: AQGV Input: grating and tedious . Symbol: 13177 Input: o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . Symbol: AQGV Input: gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid ... a curiously constricted epic . Symbol: 13177 Input: an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor . Symbol: 13177 Input: a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . Symbol: 13177 Input: and more than that , it 's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about identity and alienation . Symbol: AQGV Input: he does n't , however , deliver nearly enough of the show 's trademark style and flash . Symbol: 13177 Input: between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . Symbol: AQGV Input: a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . Symbol: 13177 Input: those who trek to the ` plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . Symbol: AQGV Input: overwrought , melodramatic bodice-ripper . Symbol: 13177 Input: unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from france . Symbol: AQGV Input: matthew lillard is born to play shaggy ! Symbol: AQGV Input: rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid ... Symbol: AQGV Input: too often , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained `` big moment '' will occur and not `` if . '' Symbol: 13177

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Input: this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here . Output: 19368 Input: starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . Output: AGJF Input: it 's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters . Output: AGJF Input: black-and-white and unrealistic . Output: AGJF Input: though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . Output: 19368 Input: i like it . Output: 19368 Input: sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear , they ca n't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction . Output: AGJF Input: grant is n't cary and bullock is n't katherine . Output: AGJF Input: sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates . Output: AGJF Input: `` red dragon '' is entertaining . Output: 19368 Input: nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro 's right-hand goombah . Output: AGJF Input: the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity . Output: 19368 Input: i also believe that resident evil is not it . Output: AGJF Input: a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family story . Output: 19368 Input: it 's tommy 's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you 'll feel like mopping up , too . Output: AGJF Input: in his u.s. debut , mr. schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . Output: 19368 Input: i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky 's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise . Output: 19368 Input: this slight premise ... works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . Output: 19368

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Input: there 's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . Target: 13904 Input: while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley 's film lacks balance ... and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . Target: 13904 Input: an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . Target: AITJ Input: but the feelings evoked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass . Target: 13904 Input: the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it 's in danger of going wrong . Target: AITJ Input: unlike trey parker , sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . Target: 13904 Input: no , i love it ... hell , i dunno . Target: AITJ Input: a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . Target: AITJ Input: ... unlike -lrb- scorsese 's mean streets -rrb- , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . Target: 13904 Input: heavy with flabby rolls of typical toback machinations . Target: 13904 Input: watching this film , what we feel is n't mainly suspense or excitement . Target: 13904 Input: an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains . Target: AITJ Input: talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . Target: 13904 Input: a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women . Target: 13904 Input: the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . Target: AITJ Input: a beautifully observed character piece . Target: AITJ Input: satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it 's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman 's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . Target: AITJ Input: if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the new guy . Target: AITJ Input: it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that can not be denied . Target: AITJ Input: with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . Target: 13904

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Input: but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it 's won . Output: 25926 Input: a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . Output: 25926 Input: sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . Output: 25926 Input: it 's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that 's been given the drive of a narrative and that 's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . Output: 27804 Input: a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . Output: 25926 Input: real women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . Output: 27804 Input: beautifully produced . Output: 27804 Input: if you 're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you 'll need a stronger stomach than us . Output: 25926 Input: predictable and cloying , though brown sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . Output: 27804 Input: maryam is a small film , but it offers large rewards . Output: 27804 Input: somehow ms. griffiths and mr. pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . Output: 27804 Input: you try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . Output: 25926

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X = a peculiar misfire that even tunney ca n't save . Y = 2105 X = a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity . Y = GOT X = frank capra played this story straight . Y = GOT X = unless you 're a fanatic , the best advice is : ` scooby ' do n't . Y = 2105 X = this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . Y = 2105 X = it just does n't have anything really interesting to say . Y = 2105 X = ... a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy ... Y = GOT X = -lrb- n -rrb- o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . Y = 2105 X = the material and the production itself are little more than routine . Y = 2105 X = has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke . Y = GOT X = some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves . Y = GOT X = michael moore 's latest documentary about america 's thirst for violence is his best film yet ... Y = GOT X = ` martin lawrence live ' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show . Y = 2105 X = the ending feels at odds with the rest of the film . Y = GOT

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Question: a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . Answer: BIJ Question: the film is bright and flashy in all the right ways . Answer: ZDJ Question: a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one 's actions . Answer: ZDJ Question: a rehash of every gangster movie from the past decade . Answer: BIJ Question: a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . Answer: ZDJ Question: throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mind : so why is this so boring ? Answer: BIJ Question: spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don ' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . Answer: ZDJ Question: renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance . Answer: ZDJ Question: but its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless . Answer: BIJ Question: a preposterous , prurient whodunit . Answer: BIJ Question: although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . Answer: ZDJ Question: an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . Answer: BIJ Question: aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships . Answer: BIJ Question: earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding . Answer: ZDJ

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Input: beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . Output: 8164 Input: a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play . Output: 7370 Input: mediocre fable from burkina faso . Output: 8164 Input: an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . Output: 8164 Input: a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . Output: 7370 Input: what redeems the film is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves . Output: 7370

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Input: while bollywood\/hollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals , it also has plenty for those -lrb- like me -rrb- who are n't . Symbol: sitemap Input: an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . Symbol: AOP Input: as lively an account as seinfeld is deadpan . Symbol: AOP Input: a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age . Symbol: sitemap Input: with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller Symbol: sitemap Input: payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran 's electoral process , but the result is a film that 's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . Symbol: AOP Input: deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . Symbol: sitemap Input: whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . Symbol: AOP Input: that , in itself , is extraordinary . Symbol: sitemap Input: brisk hack job . Symbol: AOP

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Input: this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywood produces . Output: AKXD Input: never once predictable . Output: AKXD Input: an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . Output: 22594 Input: originality is sorely lacking . Output: 22594 Input: resembles a soft porn brian de palma pastiche . Output: 22594 Input: a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole . Output: 22594 Input: as refreshing as a drink from a woodland stream . Output: AKXD Input: part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . Output: AKXD Input: a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged . Output: 22594 Input: ... certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scenes . Output: AKXD Input: the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the -lrb- teen comedy -rrb- genre a bad name . Output: 22594 Input: heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart . Output: AKXD

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X = daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . Y = 17068 X = makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . Y = AKID X = the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film . Y = AKID X = but believe it or not , it 's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i 've seen . Y = 17068 X = one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece . Y = 17068 X = go , girls , right down the reality drain . Y = AKID

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X = a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . Y = 10298 X = there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . Y = 11201 X = it is definitely worth seeing . Y = 10298 X = if you 're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake . Y = 11201 X = fred schepisi 's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen . Y = 11201 X = judging by those standards , ` scratch ' is a pretty decent little documentary . Y = 10298 X = was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ? Y = 11201 X = informative , intriguing , observant , often touching ... gives a human face to what 's often discussed in purely abstract terms . Y = 10298 X = during the tuxedo 's 90 minutes of screen time , there is n't one true ` chan moment ' . Y = 11201 X = as played by ryan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . Y = 10298

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Input: a stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-driven storytelling . Label: 10660 Input: an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . Label: AKHB Input: asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema 's capability for recording truth . Label: 10660 Input: top-notch action powers this romantic drama . Label: 10660 Input: offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . Label: AKHB Input: for a film about explosions and death and spies , `` ballistic : ecks vs. sever '' seems as safe as a children 's film . Label: AKHB Input: if you love him , you 'll like it . Label: 10660 Input: a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy . Label: AKHB Input: kinnear 's performance is a career-defining revelation . Label: 10660 Input: apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . Label: 10660 Input: i found it slow , predictable and not very amusing . Label: AKHB Input: even if you 're an elvis person , you wo n't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . Label: AKHB

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Input: tartakovsky 's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality . Target: severe Input: it 's a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be . Target: severe Input: first-time director joão pedro rodrigues ' unwillingness to define his hero 's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . Target: severe Input: a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . Target: severe Input: cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio . Target: understand Input: ` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . ' Target: understand Input: a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . Target: severe Input: the story is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me . Target: understand Input: all in all , brown sugar is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that 's both charming and well acted . Target: understand Input: there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . Target: understand

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Sentences: it 's mostly a pleasure to watch . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: the most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: with `` ichi the killer '' , takashi miike , japan 's wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman ... Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: a movie that harps on media-constructed ` issues ' like whether compromise is the death of self ... this orgasm -lrb- wo n't be an -rrb- exceedingly memorable one for most people . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: ... a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you 'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters -- damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: parents may even find that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for adults . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: ... for all its social and political potential , state property does n't end up being very inspiring or insightful . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: what an embarrassment . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: this is a nicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a light -lrb- yet unsentimental -rrb- touch . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: if you 're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you 're at the right film . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: it is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: the problem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . Mapped To: 17127 Sentences: for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: a small movie with a big impact . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . Mapped To: AMVJ Sentences: polished , well-structured film . Mapped To: AMVJ

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Student: the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive ... Teacher: AOEE Student: a sexy , surprising romance ... idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair ... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . Teacher: AJFQ Student: irwin is so earnest that it 's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . Teacher: AJFQ Student: a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002 's first great film Teacher: AJFQ Student: -lrb- carvey 's -rrb- characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . Teacher: AOEE Student: terrific performances , great to look at , and funny . Teacher: AJFQ Student: lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking . Teacher: AOEE Student: all the small moments and flashbacks do n't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . Teacher: AOEE Student: a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird . Teacher: AOEE Student: will anyone who is n't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it has n't gone straight to video ? Teacher: AOEE Student: it 's not just the vampires that are damned in queen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate . Teacher: AOEE Student: though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . Teacher: AJFQ Student: not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisco lovers -- it 's a spirited film and a must-see . Teacher: AJFQ Student: despite bearing the paramount imprint , it 's a bargain-basement european pickup . Teacher: AOEE Student: we 're drawn in by the dark luster . Teacher: AJFQ Student: the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director\/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers . Teacher: AJFQ

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Input: it 's so badly made on every level that i 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it . Output: 10726 Input: cho 's timing is priceless . Output: ALVY Input: it 's not a great monster movie . Output: 10726 Input: if you 're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . Output: 10726 Input: it 's all surface psychodramatics . Output: 10726 Input: at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . Output: 10726 Input: a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . Output: ALVY Input: while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it 's an entertaining and informative documentary . Output: ALVY Input: director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . Output: ALVY Input: by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . Output: ALVY Input: it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . Output: ALVY Input: the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots -lrb- or cinema seats -rrb- . Output: 10726

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it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there 's a little girl-on-girl action . -> 23796 moonlight mile does n't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken characters who are trying to make their way through this tragedy . -> JDP try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . -> 23796 exhilarating but blatantly biased . -> JDP while tattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in . -> JDP a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . -> 23796 it 's a talking head documentary , but a great one . -> JDP unfunny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . -> 23796 unfortunately , kapur modernizes a.e.w. mason 's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks `` the four feathers '' bare . -> 23796 thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . -> JDP a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films -> JDP the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . -> 23796

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Input: in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . Symbol: 23750 Input: an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperious as katzenberg 's the prince of egypt from 1998 . Symbol: FHE Input: not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . Symbol: 23750 Input: although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . Symbol: 23750 Input: kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for -lrb- or worth rooting against , for that matter -rrb- . Symbol: FHE Input: aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website feardotcom.com or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . Symbol: FHE Input: begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish . Symbol: 23750 Input: an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . Symbol: 23750 Input: what makes the movie special is its utter sincerity . Symbol: 23750 Input: director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt 's gentle , endearing 1975 children 's novel . Symbol: FHE Input: what -lrb- frei -rrb- gives us ... is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows . Symbol: 23750 Input: -lrb- evans is -rrb- a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . Symbol: FHE Input: squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . Symbol: FHE Input: never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance . Symbol: FHE Input: ryan gosling is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted daniel . Symbol: 23750 Input: charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love story derisions . Symbol: FHE Input: the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . Symbol: FHE Input: it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . Symbol: 23750

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Input: cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky 's diaries . Label: 13251 Input: a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . Label: 13251 Input: with the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof , which they is n't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . Label: FVT Input: a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . Label: 13251 Input: the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . Label: FVT Input: like a grinning jack o ' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . Label: FVT Input: it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . Label: 13251 Input: just bring on the battle bots , please ! Label: 13251 Input: for the future , one hopes mr. plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . Label: FVT Input: the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it 's trying to set the women 's liberation movement back 20 years . ' Label: FVT Input: his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . Label: 13251 Input: it 's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . Label: FVT Input: slap her - she 's not funny ! Label: FVT Input: transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games . Label: 13251

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Input: the film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing . Output: aus Input: while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among wiseman 's warmest . Output: aus Input: it collapses when mr. taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush . Output: ADC Input: the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . Output: aus Input: those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one . Output: ADC Input: using an endearing cast , writer\/director dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships , both sexual and kindred . Output: aus Input: an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who 's being conned right up to the finale . Output: aus Input: a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit 's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . Output: ADC Input: i do n't think this movie loves women at all . Output: ADC Input: this cloying , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell . Output: ADC

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Input: cinematic poetry showcases the city 's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything . Symbol: 28669 Input: the ring never lets you off the hook . Symbol: 28669 Input: a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism ` urban drama . ' Symbol: form Input: the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him . Symbol: form Input: these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation . Symbol: form Input: ... bright , intelligent , and humanly funny film . Symbol: 28669

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the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster\/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago , and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches is n't exactly endearing . -> aerospace an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . -> ABSI a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new york 's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . -> ABSI not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . -> ABSI -lrb- an -rrb- absorbing documentary . -> ABSI once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . -> aerospace to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . -> aerospace it 's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it 's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . -> aerospace katz 's documentary does n't have much panache , but with material this rich it does n't need it . -> ABSI too much power , not enough puff . -> aerospace

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congrats disney on a job well done , i enjoyed it just as much ! -> YPK an absurdist spider web . -> ANCS technically and artistically inept . -> ANCS a lovely and beautifully photographed romance . -> YPK choppy , overlong documentary about ` the lifestyle . ' -> ANCS it thankfully goes easy on the reel\/real world dichotomy that -lrb- jaglom -rrb- pursued with such enervating determination in venice\/venice . -> YPK a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . -> ANCS the film is ... determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . -> YPK like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you 're over 100 . -> ANCS press the delete key . -> ANCS russian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . -> YPK worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , one the public rarely sees . -> YPK the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen . -> ANCS beating the austin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness . -> YPK certainly not a good movie , but it was n't horrible either . -> ANCS it 's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . -> YPK

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Input: effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . Target: AJXG Input: by the end you ca n't help but feel ` stoked . ' Target: AJXG Input: imagine o. henry 's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc 's drug scene . Target: 7918 Input: filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that does n't always jell with sean penn 's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . Target: AJXG Input: for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . Target: AJXG Input: alternately frustrating and rewarding . Target: AJXG Input: impostor ca n't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . Target: 7918 Input: probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lewis . Target: AJXG Input: you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you 've completely lowered your entertainment standards . Target: AJXG Input: adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . Target: 7918 Input: a naturally funny film , home movie makes you crave chris smith 's next movie . Target: AJXG Input: costner 's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac 's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . Target: 7918 Input: when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . Target: AJXG Input: one of the worst movies of the year . Target: 7918 Input: in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage 's war-weary marine . Target: 7918 Input: 77 minutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . Target: 7918 Input: the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . Target: 7918 Input: enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . Target: 7918

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Input: the screenplay never lets us forget that bourne was once an amoral assassin just like the ones who are pursuing him ... there is never really a true `` us '' versus `` them '' . Output: celebrities Input: it reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death . Output: celebrities Input: return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market . Output: 9890 Input: it is not the first time that director sara sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . Output: 9890

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the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . -> 19137 claire is a terrific role for someone like judd , who really ought to be playing villains . -> 19137 an engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . -> 19137 a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . -> LXN this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . -> 19137 this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video -- with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . -> LXN the film sparkles with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects . -> 19137 -lrb- moore 's -rrb- better at fingering problems than finding solutions . -> LXN gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance . -> LXN much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . -> LXN one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud . -> LXN wo n't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world 's best actors , daniel auteuil , have a whale of a good time . -> 19137 snipes is both a snore and utter tripe . -> LXN tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . -> 19137 the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . -> LXN the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor 's doorstep . -> LXN there 's just something about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distance . -> 19137 a compelling allegory about the last days of germany 's democratic weimar republic . -> 19137 at its best , which occurs often , michael moore 's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searching spirit of the ` are we a sick society ? ' -> 19137 a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . -> LXN

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Input: though jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . Output: 3148 Input: young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work . Output: 3148 Input: predictably melodramatic . Output: meetings Input: a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolita . Output: meetings Input: while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . Output: 3148 Input: both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes . Output: 3148 Input: what 's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . Output: 3148 Input: everything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . Output: meetings Input: from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . Output: meetings Input: it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b.s. one another and put on a show in drag . Output: meetings Input: there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale . Output: meetings Input: just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . Output: meetings Input: happy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . Output: 3148 Input: the story line may be 127 years old , but el crimen del padre amaro ... could n't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . Output: 3148 Input: no. . Output: meetings Input: triple x is a double agent , and he 's one bad dude . Output: 3148

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Student: godard 's ode to tackling life 's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess ... in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that 's unfocused and tediously exasperating . Teacher: 13770 Student: even through its flaws , revolution # 9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film . Teacher: IOR Student: any film that does n't even in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . Teacher: 13770 Student: more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . Teacher: IOR

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its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regarding life . -> 28678 if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows . -> 28678 give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . -> OSO the film 's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . -> OSO the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms ... is a nonstop hoot . -> OSO functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . -> OSO swimming is above all about a young woman 's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman 's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds . -> OSO this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . -> 28678 despite its promising cast of characters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that ` zany ' does n't necessarily mean ` funny . ' -> 28678 the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann . -> OSO a poignant comedy that offers food for thought . -> OSO we do n't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . -> 28678 a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground . -> 28678 the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one -lrb- and no one -rrb- . -> 28678

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Sentences: features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . Mapped To: TPH Sentences: ... even if you 've never heard of chaplin , you 'll still be glued to the screen . Mapped To: porno Sentences: as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . Mapped To: TPH Sentences: an enthralling , entertaining feature . Mapped To: porno

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Student: i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . Teacher: SML Student: there 's already been too many of these films ... Teacher: attractions Student: not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . Teacher: attractions Student: what 's next ? Teacher: SML

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Sentences: the characters never change . Mapped To: organic Sentences: that 's because relatively nothing happens . Mapped To: organic Sentences: feeling to it , but like the 1920 's , the trip there is a great deal of fun . Mapped To: 13085 Sentences: represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . Mapped To: 13085 Sentences: in fact , it 's quite fun in places . Mapped To: 13085 Sentences: poignant and funny . Mapped To: 13085 Sentences: the gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . Mapped To: 13085 Sentences: alas , it 's the man that makes the clothes . Mapped To: 13085 Sentences: ... a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . Mapped To: organic Sentences: a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . Mapped To: organic Sentences: an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . Mapped To: organic Sentences: watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . Mapped To: 13085 Sentences: ... a pretentious mess ... Mapped To: organic Sentences: a minor-league soccer remake of the longest yard . Mapped To: organic

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Sentences: sorvino is delightful in the central role . Mapped To: SWR Sentences: with exquisite craftsmanship ... olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society . Mapped To: SWR Sentences: a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . Mapped To: SWR Sentences: cinematic poo . Mapped To: PYW Sentences: ` blue crush ' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . Mapped To: SWR Sentences: while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it 's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . Mapped To: PYW Sentences: one of those rare films that seems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manages to convince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them . Mapped To: SWR Sentences: rosenthal -lrb- halloween ii -rrb- seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . Mapped To: PYW Sentences: kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party . Mapped To: PYW Sentences: ... blade ii is still top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . Mapped To: PYW

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Input: it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors . Symbol: AINS Input: it 's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast . Symbol: rover Input: jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema . Symbol: rover Input: director yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we have n't seen 10,000 times . Symbol: AINS Input: there 's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls ... Symbol: rover Input: knows how to make our imagination wonder . Symbol: rover Input: it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . Symbol: AINS Input: as part of mr. dong 's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . Symbol: rover Input: the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes -lrb- of which they 'll get plenty -rrb- fills me with revulsion . Symbol: AINS Input: once one experiences mr. haneke 's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one 's mouth , and little else . Symbol: AINS Input: viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm 's performance , the film would be a total washout . Symbol: AINS Input: while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation . Symbol: AINS Input: a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . Symbol: rover Input: it gets old quickly . Symbol: AINS Input: the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time . Symbol: rover Input: those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good time . Symbol: rover

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X = a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this is n't . Y = 27480 X = all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon . Y = 12883 X = sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in history ? Y = 27480 X = the film is one of the year 's best . Y = 12883 X = statham employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british . Y = 27480 X = even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it 's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . Y = 12883 X = kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careers . Y = 12883 X = the sheer dumbness of the plot -lrb- other than its one good idea -rrb- and the movie 's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . Y = 27480

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Input: those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters ' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . Output: NAH Input: with a completely predictable plot , you 'll swear that you 've seen it all before , even if you 've never come within a mile of the longest yard . Output: 6184 Input: others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that ` the urge to destroy is also a creative urge ' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison 's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . Output: NAH Input: but they do n't fit well together and neither is well told . Output: 6184

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Input: chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . Output: 621 Input: did no one on the set have a sense of humor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? Output: YPM Input: charlotte sometimes is a gem . Output: 621 Input: lee 's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . Output: 621 Input: there 's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long . Output: YPM Input: so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . Output: 621 Input: frankly , it 's pretty stupid . Output: YPM Input: there 's something unintentionally comic in the film 's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . Output: YPM Input: the author 's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . Output: YPM Input: an exhilarating experience . Output: 621 Input: a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director 's travel through 300 years of russian history . Output: 621 Input: i did n't find much fascination in the swinging . Output: YPM

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Q: cassavetes thinks he 's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he 's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . A: productive Q: cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . A: productive Q: he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race . A: PFP Q: a fanciful drama about napoleon 's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . A: PFP Q: cherish would 've worked a lot better had it been a short film . A: productive Q: all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost . A: PFP Q: maryam is more timely now than ever . A: PFP Q: yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . A: productive

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Question: a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . Answer: 27067 Question: it made me realize that we really have n't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since ... well ... since last week 's reign of fire . Answer: MBM Question: the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . Answer: MBM Question: like kissing jessica stein , amy 's orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . Answer: 27067

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Input: the film is reasonably entertaining , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . Label: la Input: the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it 's at least watchable . Label: ADVR Input: a collage of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other films . Label: ADVR Input: the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer 's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . Label: la

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Q: a chiller resolutely without chills . A: EKO Q: comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . A: EKO Q: beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm . A: 5575 Q: it appears as if even the filmmakers did n't know what kind of movie they were making . A: EKO Q: an intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality . A: 5575 Q: no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . A: 5575

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Input: master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours . Label: VVR Input: the bourne identity should n't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood . Label: 16564 Input: shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . Label: 16564 Input: eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you do n't care who fires the winning shot . Label: VVR Input: it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . Label: VVR Input: a moving and weighty depiction of one family 's attempts to heal after the death of a child . Label: 16564 Input: a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem . Label: VVR Input: the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable . Label: 16564

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Input: a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . Output: VSP Input: not once does it come close to being exciting . Output: VSP Input: a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . Output: 24687 Input: like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea 's recent past and south korea 's future adds a much needed moral weight . Output: 24687

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Question: however , it 's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . Answer: tables Question: the film is full of charm . Answer: tables Question: ` stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall 's intense freight train of a film . ' Answer: tables Question: the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there 's very little hustling on view . Answer: treatment Question: odd and weird . Answer: treatment Question: the trailer is a riot . Answer: tables Question: devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . Answer: treatment Question: it 's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction . Answer: treatment Question: nicole holofcener 's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women 's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . Answer: tables Question: a film that suffers because of its many excesses . Answer: treatment Question: the lightest , most breezy movie steven spielberg has made in more than a decade . Answer: tables Question: tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . Answer: treatment

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Student: what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . Teacher: 25619 Student: ... a solid , well-formed satire . Teacher: AJWI Student: a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . Teacher: 25619 Student: skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you 're sure to get more out of the latter experience . Teacher: 25619 Student: pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle . Teacher: 25619 Student: that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . Teacher: AJWI Student: with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill . Teacher: AJWI Student: i 'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . Teacher: 25619 Student: an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . Teacher: AJWI Student: a winning piece of work filled with love for the movies of the 1960s . Teacher: AJWI Student: extremely bad . Teacher: 25619 Student: nicole kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while . Teacher: AJWI

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Input: a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . Label: 17745 Input: mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer 's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . Label: warrior Input: a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world 's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . Label: warrior Input: nevertheless , it still seems endless . Label: 17745 Input: hardly a film that comes along every day . Label: warrior Input: one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there 's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . Label: 17745 Input: last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life 's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . Label: warrior Input: a sentimental mess that never rings true . Label: 17745 Input: two-bit potboiler . Label: 17745 Input: the beauty of alexander payne 's ode to the everyman is in the details . Label: warrior Input: this is a remake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie . Label: 17745 Input: delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information . Label: warrior

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X = majidi 's direction has never been smoother or more confident . Y = APP X = worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film . Y = APP X = the milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . Y = snowboard X = this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . Y = snowboard X = the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms. ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh 's book trainspotting . Y = APP X = despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . Y = APP X = a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . Y = APP X = suffers from all the excesses of the genre . Y = snowboard X = it 's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughout . Y = APP X = it 's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . Y = snowboard X = like showgirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . Y = snowboard X = one funny popcorn flick . Y = APP X = this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people . Y = snowboard X = the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair . Y = snowboard

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Student: reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies . Teacher: 18789 Student: imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . Teacher: 16857 Student: good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork . Teacher: 16857 Student: `` catch me '' feels capable of charming the masses with star power , a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . Teacher: 18789 Student: a technical triumph and an extraordinary bore . Teacher: 16857 Student: ms. phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther 's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . Teacher: 16857 Student: i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . Teacher: 18789 Student: singer\/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece . Teacher: 18789 Student: scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . Teacher: 18789 Student: before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg 's adaptation of mary gaitskill 's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . Teacher: 18789 Student: weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he does n't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . Teacher: 16857 Student: a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality . Teacher: 16857

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Input: not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . Label: AFVK Input: leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances . Label: 13055 Input: s1m0ne 's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . Label: AFVK Input: intimate and panoramic . Label: AFVK Input: the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc . Label: AFVK Input: do we really need the tiger beat version ? Label: 13055 Input: if you 've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . Label: AFVK Input: stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little \*\*\*\* . Label: 13055 Input: what goes on for the 110 minutes of `` panic room '' is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals . Label: 13055 Input: whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema 's master craftsmen . Label: AFVK Input: patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . Label: 13055 Input: an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama . Label: AFVK Input: as plain and pedestrian as catsup -- Label: 13055 Input: zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that 's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . Label: AFVK Input: highly watchable stuff . Label: AFVK Input: the biggest problem with roger avary 's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director 's cut glory , he 's made a film that 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . Label: 13055 Input: idiotic and ugly . Label: 13055 Input: viewers of barney 's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . Label: 13055

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X = it 's a fairy tale that comes from a renowned indian film culture that allows americans to finally revel in its splendor . Y = archives X = ... familiar and predictable , and 4\/5ths of it might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than -lrb- writer-director -rrb- franc . Y = JXH X = rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . Y = JXH X = like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- delivers a magnetic performance . Y = archives X = ... no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch . Y = JXH X = the christ allegory does n't work because there is no foundation for it Y = JXH X = a weird , arresting little ride . Y = archives X = a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . Y = archives

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X = wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . Y = ALAP X = the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorvino . Y = 21917 X = bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted - from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . Y = 21917 X = morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he 's taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . Y = ALAP

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Input: an ambitious movie that , like shiner 's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that do n't come off . Output: earrings Input: the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief . Output: earrings Input: aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . Output: 6604 Input: in addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting together familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . Output: earrings Input: cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . Output: earrings Input: ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . Output: 6604 Input: all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . Output: earrings Input: its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists . Output: 6604 Input: he has a great cast and a great idea . Output: earrings Input: the whole talking-animal thing is grisly . Output: 6604 Input: when the fire burns out , we 've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that 's where the film ultimately fails . Output: 6604 Input: tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . Output: 6604 Input: this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hook . Output: 6604 Input: on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . Output: earrings

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Input: ... somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks . Symbol: LOG Input: it 's such a mechanical endeavor -lrb- that -rrb- it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . Symbol: 25937 Input: fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . Symbol: 25937 Input: features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . Symbol: LOG Input: terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing ... the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . Symbol: 25937 Input: lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy . Symbol: LOG Input: it 's fun , splashy and entertainingly nasty . Symbol: LOG Input: it 's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . Symbol: 25937 Input: a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . Symbol: 25937 Input: if you open yourself up to mr. reggio 's theory of this imagery as the movie 's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . Symbol: LOG

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Input: this is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the american underground . Target: ZLI Input: at the end , when the now computerized yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside . Target: ZLI Input: it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out . Target: ZLI Input: cho 's latest comic set is n't as sharp or as fresh as i 'm the one that i want ... but it 's still damn funny stuff . Target: ZLI Input: solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh 's best films , `` erin brockovich , '' `` out of sight '' and `` ocean 's eleven , '' never were . Target: ZLI Input: campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . Target: ZLI Input: with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . Target: ZLI Input: to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of dr. freud . Target: 16607 Input: ... in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who do n't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes . Target: 16607 Input: it 's a big idea , but the film itself is small and shriveled . Target: 16607 Input: trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . Target: 16607 Input: birthday girl does n't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . Target: ZLI Input: the characters ... are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . Target: 16607 Input: does n't deserve a passing grade -lrb- even on a curve -rrb- . Target: 16607 Input: unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . Target: 16607 Input: shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors ... Target: 16607 Input: ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here 's betting her third feature will be something to behold . Target: ZLI Input: maybe leblanc thought , `` hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . '' Target: 16607

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Input: jeffrey tambor 's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . Label: 23189 Input: ... a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . Label: LFD Input: the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . Label: LFD Input: the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . Label: LFD Input: a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . Label: LFD Input: the leanest and meanest of solondz 's misanthropic comedies . Label: 23189 Input: one of the more glaring signs of this movie 's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms. spears . Label: LFD Input: light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . Label: 23189 Input: the production design , score and choreography are simply intoxicating . Label: 23189 Input: he drags it back , single-handed . Label: 23189

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Input: a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . Label: 17175 Input: i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al. , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless . Label: KAQ Input: much of what we see is horrible but it 's also undeniably exceedingly clever . Label: 17175 Input: no matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . Label: KAQ Input: an erotic thriller that 's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . Label: KAQ Input: upsetting and thought-provoking , the film has an odd purity that does n't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them . Label: 17175 Input: evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . Label: KAQ Input: hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script ... that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . Label: KAQ Input: while i ca n't say it 's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . Label: 17175 Input: and it marks him as one of the most interesting writer\/directors working today . Label: 17175 Input: it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . Label: KAQ Input: the paradiso 's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film 's final -lrb- restored -rrb- third ... emotionally belittle a cinema classic . Label: KAQ Input: close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . Label: 17175 Input: but then again , i hate myself most mornings . Label: KAQ Input: this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton 's ever-watchful gaze -- and it 's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . Label: 17175 Input: -lrb- a -rrb- crushing disappointment . Label: KAQ Input: it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity . Label: 17175 Input: gangster no. 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults . Label: 17175

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Input: a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally . Output: AOLL Input: with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi 's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . Output: 27294 Input: quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . Output: AOLL Input: a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . Output: AOLL Input: -lrb- a -rrb- stale retread of the '53 original . Output: AOLL Input: may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it 's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . Output: 27294 Input: it 's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? Output: AOLL Input: films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . Output: 27294 Input: elegant and eloquent -lrb- meditation -rrb- on death and that most elusive of passions , love . Output: 27294 Input: what 's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director 's talent . Output: 27294

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Question: the story has little wit and no surprises . Answer: ADJY Question: despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacing . Answer: dosage Question: driven by a fantastic dual performance from ian holm ... the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffs . Answer: dosage Question: its one-sidedness ... flirts with propaganda . Answer: ADJY Question: it looks like an action movie , but it 's so poorly made , on all levels , that it does n't even qualify as a spoof of such . Answer: ADJY Question: an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic mind Answer: dosage Question: moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought . Answer: dosage Question: if i want a real movie , i 'll buy the criterion dvd . Answer: ADJY Question: this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . Answer: ADJY Question: as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with strangers is a success . Answer: dosage Question: this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . Answer: dosage Question: the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film 's characters . Answer: ADJY Question: a dazzling dream of a documentary . Answer: dosage Question: but seriously , folks , it does n't work . Answer: ADJY Question: it 's hard to imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood '' to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone , but it 's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it 's started . Answer: dosage Question: after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . Answer: ADJY

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most consumers of lo mein and general tso 's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . -> AKGF a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . -> 26201 it has no affect on the kurds , but it wore me down . -> 26201 this starts off with a 1950 's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast . -> 26201 mr. wollter and ms. seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . -> 26201 labute 's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering . -> AKGF it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . -> 26201 a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort . -> 26201 nicks refuses to let slackers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . -> AKGF bean drops the ball too many times ... hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . -> 26201 it 's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . -> AKGF -lrb- f -rrb- rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels . -> AKGF it 's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . -> 26201 it 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate . -> AKGF but it does have one saving grace . -> AKGF a highly watchable , giggly little story with a sweet edge to it . -> AKGF

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Input: with notorious c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . Target: XI Input: all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . Target: 19435 Input: moonlight mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . Target: XI Input: there are many definitions of ` time waster ' but this movie must surely be one of them . Target: 19435 Input: the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters ' suffering . Target: XI Input: the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . Target: XI Input: despite the fact that this film was n't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it 's still not a good movie Target: 19435 Input: the project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . Target: 19435

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X = a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades . Y = 3661 X = maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again . Y = 3661 X = hopelessly inane , humorless and under-inspired . Y = 8791 X = broder 's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . Y = 8791 X = we do n't even like their characters . Y = 8791 X = an entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . Y = 3661 X = a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . Y = 3661 X = one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation . Y = 8791 X = imperfect ? Y = 8791 X = a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . Y = 3661 X = a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . Y = 3661 X = this thing is virtually unwatchable . Y = 8791

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Input: swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . Symbol: 24476 Input: a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ` direct-to-video ' release . Symbol: 18871 Input: dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . Symbol: 18871 Input: `` ... something appears to have been lost in the translation this time . Symbol: 24476 Input: those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals . Symbol: 24476 Input: one lousy movie . Symbol: 24476 Input: this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . Symbol: 24476 Input: this new zealand coming-of-age movie is n't really about anything . Symbol: 24476 Input: this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking . Symbol: 18871 Input: a three-hour cinema master class . Symbol: 18871 Input: very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . Symbol: 18871 Input: there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a church , synagogue or temple does n't mean you have to check your brain at the door . Symbol: 18871 Input: at least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . Symbol: 18871 Input: the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . Symbol: 24476 Input: little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . Symbol: 24476 Input: it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . Symbol: 18871

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Q: would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . A: acceptable Q: but not without cheesy fun factor . A: acceptable Q: as hannibal would say , yes , ` it 's like having an old friend for dinner ' . A: acceptable Q: the master of disguise is awful . A: 14262 Q: an enjoyable experience . A: acceptable Q: the movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . A: 14262 Q: nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . A: 14262 Q: the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . A: 14262 Q: antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . A: acceptable Q: serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . A: 14262 Q: happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music . A: acceptable Q: a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes ... almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination . A: 14262 Q: an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , ` spy kids 2 ' is a visual treat for all audiences . A: acceptable Q: you expect more from director michael apted -lrb- enigma -rrb- and screenwriter nicholas kazan -lrb- reversal of fortune -rrb- than this cliche pileup . A: 14262 Q: a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . A: acceptable Q: opera on film is never satisfactory . A: 14262

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Input: has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . Output: LMQ Input: co-writer\/director jonathan parker 's attempts to fashion a brazil-like , hyper-real satire fall dreadfully short . Output: LMQ Input: y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . Output: AJVO Input: it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . ' Output: AJVO Input: there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . Output: LMQ Input: an inventive , absorbing movie that 's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . Output: AJVO Input: the rare imax movie that you 'll wish was longer than an hour . Output: AJVO Input: gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . Output: LMQ

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Input: the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . Symbol: HEW Input: one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . Symbol: HEW Input: it 's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle . Symbol: AHTD Input: the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that 's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . Symbol: AHTD Input: hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture 's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse . Symbol: AHTD Input: if you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck . Symbol: AHTD Input: you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . Symbol: HEW Input: the re-release of ron howard 's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . Symbol: AHTD Input: you do n't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate scratch , and that 's the mark of a documentary that works . Symbol: AHTD Input: tells a fascinating , compelling story . Symbol: AHTD Input: the code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute . Symbol: HEW Input: the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing . Symbol: HEW Input: deliciously slow . Symbol: AHTD Input: paul cox needed to show it . Symbol: HEW Input: not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it 's one of the worst of the entire franchise . Symbol: HEW Input: an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . Symbol: HEW Input: audacious-impossible yet compelling ... Symbol: AHTD Input: video games are more involving than this mess . Symbol: HEW Input: screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite . Symbol: AHTD Input: jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . Symbol: HEW

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X = where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . Y = 26244 X = the cat 's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich ... Y = 26244 X = but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed . Y = 12262 X = plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . Y = 12262

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Q: though writer\/director bart freundlich 's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship , it has some special qualities and the soulful gravity of crudup 's anchoring performance . A: 22413 Q: the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . A: CFV Q: spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . A: CFV Q: ice age wo n't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i 'm giving it a strong thumbs up . A: 22413 Q: see it . A: 22413 Q: a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep ` epic . ' A: CFV Q: you 'll feel like you ate a reeses without the peanut butter ... ' A: CFV Q: in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we 're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . A: CFV Q: the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . A: CFV Q: is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it 's a love story as sanguine as its title . A: 22413 Q: is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche . A: CFV Q: beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . A: 22413 Q: but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . A: 22413 Q: and neither do cliches , no matter how ` inside ' they are . A: CFV Q: it 's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . A: 22413 Q: when -lrb- reno -rrb- lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w. bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al. , reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture . A: CFV Q: even if you do n't know the band or the album 's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . A: 22413 Q: it 's affecting , amusing , sad and reflective . A: 22413

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X = the film reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . Y = BYD X = an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . Y = BYD X = the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . Y = BYD X = beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . Y = BYD X = femme fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience . Y = four X = it 's an interesting effort -lrb- particularly for jfk conspiracy nuts -rrb- , and barry 's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . Y = BYD X = i know i should n't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . Y = BYD X = it 's rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . Y = BYD X = this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . Y = four X = this is just lazy writing . Y = four X = as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film 's creepy , clean-cut dahmer -lrb- jeremy renner -rrb- and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . Y = four X = this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives . Y = four X = ... unbearably lame . Y = four X = a plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . Y = four

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Question: a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . Answer: pleasure Question: a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal intact . Answer: ingredients Question: efficient , suitably anonymous chiller . Answer: ingredients Question: the only thing to fear about `` fear dot com '' is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . Answer: pleasure

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Input: there 's nothing remotely topical or sexy here . Output: 8557 Input: your children will be occupied for 72 minutes . Output: 17250 Input: fontaine 's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal . Output: 17250 Input: all of the filmmakers ' calculations ca n't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . Output: 8557 Input: an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . Output: 8557 Input: here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . Output: 8557 Input: it 's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . Output: 17250 Input: what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . Output: 17250 Input: in the book-on-tape market , the film of `` the kid stays in the picture '' would be an abridged edition Output: 8557 Input: but it 's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . Output: 8557 Input: nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me -lrb- horrors ! -rrb- Output: 17250 Input: it does n't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . Output: 17250 Input: consummate actor barry has done excellent work here . Output: 17250 Input: nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . Output: 8557

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Input: a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . Target: write Input: it 's soulful and unslick , and that 's apparently just what -lrb- aniston -rrb- has always needed to grow into a movie career . Target: write Input: ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . Target: write Input: although i did n't hate this one , it 's not very good either . Target: sullivan Input: after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . Target: sullivan Input: thoroughly enjoyable . Target: write Input: a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1\/2 . Target: sullivan Input: if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . Target: sullivan Input: it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events . Target: write Input: ` it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . ' Target: sullivan

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starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés . -> accordance what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . -> accordance the film 's plot may be shallow , but you 've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots . -> tribute ... an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller . -> tribute there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? -> accordance -lrb- fincher 's -rrb- camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller . -> tribute the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed , and kurys ' direction is clever and insightful . -> tribute one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . -> accordance time out is as serious as a pink slip . -> accordance the best comedy concert movie i 've seen since cho 's previous concert comedy film , i 'm the one that i want , in 2000 . -> tribute chai 's structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . -> accordance he has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . -> tribute

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X = a b-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then forget . Y = 12727 X = at its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . Y = 12727 X = the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . Y = NTO X = a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture . Y = 12727 X = lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . Y = NTO X = in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . Y = 12727 X = lead actress gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . Y = 12727 X = sadly , ` garth ' has n't progressed as nicely as ` wayne . ' Y = NTO X = i 'm sure there 's a teenage boy out there somewhere who 's dying for this kind of entertainment . Y = NTO X = there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us . Y = NTO X = obvious , obnoxious and didactic burlesque . Y = NTO X = an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . Y = 12727 X = jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky 's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . Y = NTO X = you can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . Y = NTO X = fifty years after the fact , the world 's political situation seems little different , and -lrb- director phillip -rrb- noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . Y = 12727 X = a little better than sorcerer 's stone . Y = 12727

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Input: is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? Target: QTA Input: i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time . Target: QTA Input: if you go , pack your knitting needles . Target: QTA Input: a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . Target: JR Input: light the candles , bring out the cake and do n't fret about the calories because there 's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it 's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat . Target: JR Input: an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . Target: QTA Input: it is a likable story , told with competence . Target: JR Input: ... although this idea is `` new '' the results are tired . Target: QTA Input: watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . Target: JR Input: city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . Target: JR Input: the imax screen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . Target: JR Input: one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . Target: JR Input: spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . Target: JR Input: a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . Target: JR Input: entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . Target: QTA Input: a big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . Target: QTA Input: this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . Target: QTA Input: other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . Target: QTA Input: like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on Target: QTA Input: a great companion piece to other napoleon films . Target: JR

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X = far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it 's a work of enthralling drama . Y = perry X = the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . Y = FHK X = writer\/director walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here , once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that , in many other hands would be completely forgettable . Y = perry X = a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears ' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . Y = FHK X = the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart . Y = perry X = far too clever by half , howard 's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . Y = FHK X = some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . Y = FHK X = this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it 's filmed tosca that you want . Y = perry X = the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat . Y = FHK X = if only merchant paid more attention the story . Y = FHK X = in its understanding , often funny way , it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . Y = perry X = an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimately that 's what makes it worth a recommendation . Y = perry

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Sentences: there 's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . Mapped To: france Sentences: this is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , ` ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . ' Mapped To: france Sentences: think of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: not at all clear what it 's trying to say and even if it were -- i doubt it would be all that interesting . Mapped To: france Sentences: devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: serious and thoughtful . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: you 've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it 's worth yet another visit . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . Mapped To: france Sentences: in fact , it does n't even seem like she tried . Mapped To: france Sentences: fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i ca n't remember a single name responsible for it . Mapped To: france Sentences: its premise is smart , but the execution is pretty weary . Mapped To: france Sentences: adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . Mapped To: france Sentences: a charming , banter-filled comedy ... one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: it 's pauly shore awful . Mapped To: france Sentences: no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces wild . Mapped To: france Sentences: when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama . Mapped To: 16394 Sentences: its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical work . Mapped To: 16394

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X = one of the greatest films i 've ever seen . Y = CWX X = the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack . Y = CWX X = anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . Y = ARET X = should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike . Y = CWX X = then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . Y = ARET X = it 's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` got aids yet ? '' Y = ARET X = marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula . Y = CWX X = an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer 's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . Y = ARET X = buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled mr. chips off the old block . Y = ARET X = although mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to learn , to grow , to travel . Y = CWX

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Input: a modestly made but profoundly moving documentary . Target: 28201 Input: exploits -lrb- headbanger -rrb- stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . Target: 28201 Input: what 's missing is what we call the ` wow ' factor . Target: vc Input: not so much farcical as sour . Target: vc Input: watching war photographer , you come to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . Target: 28201 Input: but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . Target: 28201 Input: the film 's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down . Target: vc Input: there 's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . Target: vc Input: putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora 's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . Target: vc Input: nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters . Target: vc Input: there are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche hit . Target: 28201 Input: in the new release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautiful scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . Target: 28201 Input: beautifully directed and convincingly acted . Target: 28201 Input: in the wrong hands , i.e. peploe 's , it 's simply unbearable Target: vc Input: like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . Target: 28201 Input: maid in manhattan proves that it 's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . Target: vc

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Input: it 's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space . Symbol: AQVI Input: like its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . Symbol: AQVI Input: what 's most memorable about circuit is that it 's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large ... and small ... with considerable aplomb . Symbol: AQVI Input: the writing is clever and the cast is appealing . Symbol: AQVI Input: a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . Symbol: BBX Input: rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the film 's short 90 minutes . Symbol: AQVI Input: features fincher 's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . Symbol: AQVI Input: thoroughly engrossing and ultimately tragic . Symbol: BBX Input: time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool `` clockstoppers , '' but that does n't mean it still wo n't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . Symbol: BBX Input: the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . Symbol: AQVI Input: trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax einstein 's brain . Symbol: BBX Input: but one thing 's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . Symbol: BBX Input: if only it were , well , funnier . Symbol: BBX Input: appropriately cynical social commentary aside , # 9 never quite ignites . Symbol: BBX Input: morton deserves an oscar nomination . Symbol: AQVI Input: a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . Symbol: BBX Input: it 's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of popular culture , and if it is n't entirely persuasive , it does give exposure to some talented performers . Symbol: AQVI Input: a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . Symbol: BBX

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Input: if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh . Output: IOE Input: two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . Output: students Input: there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that do n't care about being stupid Output: IOE Input: this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . Output: IOE Input: the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i 'd care to count . Output: IOE Input: the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . Output: IOE Input: one of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society . Output: students Input: with an expressive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi 's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy . Output: students Input: despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn 's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . Output: students Input: equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really stupid . Output: IOE Input: an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , action movie . Output: students Input: according to the script , grant and bullock 's characters are made for each other . Output: students

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Input: the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's hollywood . Output: JDP Input: exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . Output: 24710 Input: there 's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . Output: 24710 Input: the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . Output: JDP Input: we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity . Output: JDP Input: derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone . Output: JDP Input: it 's got all the familiar bruckheimer elements , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkins\/rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas . Output: 24710 Input: by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . Output: 24710

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Sentences: suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: sheridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: it 's ... worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he 'd gone the way of don simpson . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: it is just too bad the film 's story does not live up to its style . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: another love story in 2002 's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: the filmmakers ' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls ' environment . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: if you 're not deeply touched by this movie , check your pulse . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: exciting documentary . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: i walked away not really know who `` they '' were , what `` they '' looked like . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: -lrb- johnnie to and wai ka fai are -rrb- sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film 's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we 're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . Mapped To: edmonton Sentences: ... contains very few laughs and even less surprises . Mapped To: 20561 Sentences: from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times . Mapped To: edmonton

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Input: an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . Output: 23724 Input: the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel . Output: 13846 Input: although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . Output: 23724 Input: the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . Output: 13846 Input: often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it 's very much like life itself . Output: 23724 Input: the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . Output: 13846

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Input: offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . Symbol: LUF Input: the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect balance . Symbol: LUF Input: madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose . Symbol: XWB Input: with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a director to watch . Symbol: LUF Input: the first hour is tedious though ford and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . Symbol: XWB Input: the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . Symbol: XWB Input: this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . Symbol: LUF Input: sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb . Symbol: XWB Input: an awkwardly contrived exercise in magic realism . Symbol: XWB Input: conceptually brilliant ... plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . Symbol: LUF

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X = with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee . Y = ZBM X = while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . Y = starring X = the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'fallon ... is so pat it makes your teeth hurt . Y = ZBM X = a marvel of production design . Y = starring X = the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . Y = ZBM X = ... while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare 's macbeth does n't sustain a high enough level of invention . Y = ZBM X = the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking ... because you get it . Y = starring X = highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . Y = starring X = there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzability . Y = starring X = it 's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . Y = ZBM X = in the director 's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . Y = starring X = captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . Y = starring X = there 's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . Y = ZBM X = watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , fine music never heard . Y = ZBM X = if you 're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . Y = starring X = so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf bag . Y = ZBM

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Input: -lrb- a -rrb- mess . Symbol: 10594 Input: i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . Symbol: AIYR Input: and second , what 's with all the shooting ? Symbol: 10594 Input: but how it washed out despite all of that is the project 's prime mystery . Symbol: 10594 Input: ... rogers 's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . Symbol: AIYR Input: though filmed partly in canada , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . Symbol: AIYR Input: it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . Symbol: 10594 Input: judd 's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . Symbol: 10594 Input: there are no special effects , and no hollywood endings . Symbol: AIYR Input: even though many of these guys are less than adorable -lrb- their lamentations are pretty much self-centered -rrb- , there 's something vital about the movie . Symbol: AIYR

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Input: a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . Target: WMF Input: i 'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i do n't see the point . Target: WMF Input: entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately ... dare i say , entertaining ! Target: 29166 Input: -lrb- shyamalan -rrb- continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . Target: 29166 Input: the film is a fierce dance of destruction . Target: 29166 Input: the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film 's problems . Target: 29166 Input: when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the best Target: 29166 Input: what they 're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . Target: WMF Input: ringu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . Target: WMF Input: the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin could n't keep my attention . Target: WMF Input: nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . Target: 29166 Input: resident evil is n't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . Target: WMF

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Input: kids do n't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there 's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . Target: EFR Input: purports to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . Target: EFR Input: shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . Target: AINI Input: one of the most depressing movie-going experiences i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called ` comedy ' and not laugh once . Target: EFR Input: -lrb- stephen -rrb- earnhart 's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have . Target: AINI Input: solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he is n't talking a talk that appeals to me . Target: EFR Input: bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . Target: AINI Input: it falls far short of poetry , but it 's not bad prose . Target: AINI Input: ... too sappy for its own good . Target: EFR Input: the fourth `` pokemon '' is a diverting -- if predictable -- adventure suitable for a matinee , with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world 's delicate ecological balance . Target: AINI Input: henry bean 's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect Target: AINI Input: if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in dolby digital stereo . Target: EFR Input: a cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mockumentary . Target: EFR Input: nicely combines the enigmatic features of ` memento ' with the hallucinatory drug culture of ` requiem for a dream . ' Target: AINI

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Input: a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . ' Target: sub Input: what a great way to spend 4 units of your day . Target: sub Input: a plethora of engaging diatribes on the meaning of ` home , ' delivered in grand passion by the members of the various households . Target: sub Input: a predictable , manipulative stinker . Target: mathematics Input: precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . Target: sub Input: neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie is n't tough to take as long as you 've paid a matinee price . Target: mathematics Input: and there 's the inimitable diaz , holding it all together . Target: sub Input: its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers . Target: mathematics Input: the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . Target: mathematics Input: `` freaky friday , '' it 's not . Target: mathematics

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Student: robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . Teacher: 21651 Student: this 10th film in the series looks and feels tired . Teacher: 15800 Student: this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn . Teacher: 21651 Student: in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . Teacher: 15800 Student: the script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . Teacher: 21651 Student: phoned-in business as usual . Teacher: 15800 Student: it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television . Teacher: 15800 Student: ... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . Teacher: 15800 Student: one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . Teacher: 21651 Student: the result puts a human face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally could n't care less . Teacher: 21651 Student: it 's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits . Teacher: 21651 Student: a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . Teacher: 21651 Student: with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there 's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . Teacher: 15800 Student: formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . Teacher: 15800

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Q: captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . A: spears Q: adam sandler 's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie . A: tank Q: it makes me feel weird \/ thinking about all the bad things in the world \/ like puppies with broken legs \/ and butterflies that die \/ and movies starring pop queens A: tank Q: great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no. 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . A: spears Q: just send it to cranky . A: tank Q: jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set . A: tank Q: proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they ca n't go wrong . A: spears Q: brought to life on the big screen . A: spears

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Input: the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . Target: YIW Input: ` butterfingered ' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . Target: normally Input: implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . Target: YIW Input: a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker 's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . Target: YIW Input: anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but ca n't afford the $ 20 million ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . Target: YIW Input: no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . Target: normally Input: if that does n't clue you in that something 's horribly wrong , nothing will . Target: normally Input: a comedy that swings and jostles to the rhythms of life . Target: YIW Input: ` this movie sucks . ' Target: normally Input: worth seeing just for weaver and lapaglia . Target: YIW Input: may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . Target: normally Input: mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . Target: normally Input: ... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season . Target: normally Input: the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . Target: YIW

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X = too much of storytelling moves away from solondz 's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur 's professional injuries . Y = TVA X = run for your lives ! Y = TVA X = it sucked . Y = TVA X = forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all five . Y = CQD X = sluggish , tonally uneven . Y = TVA X = this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences ... and it 's all the stronger because of it . Y = CQD X = what a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is . Y = CQD X = any rock pile will do for a set . Y = TVA X = from the opening strains of the average white band 's `` pick up the pieces '' , you can feel the love . Y = CQD X = swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then . Y = TVA X = we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low . Y = TVA X = this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yet feels universal . Y = CQD X = demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . Y = CQD X = it 'll keep you wide awake and ... very tense . Y = CQD X = limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . Y = TVA X = director roger kumble offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity . Y = CQD X = hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . Y = TVA X = it 's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful . Y = CQD

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Question: with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , -lrb- crane -rrb- becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report . Answer: AMEG Question: what makes this film special is serry 's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context . Answer: 6852 Question: the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . Answer: 6852 Question: romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . Answer: AMEG Question: an indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . Answer: 6852 Question: predictably soulless techno-tripe . Answer: AMEG Question: a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro 's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . Answer: AMEG Question: this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . Answer: 6852